Join your host, filmmaker Mark Bessenger (BITE MARKS, NINJA ZOMBIE), and his guests as they delve into the exploitative, overlooked and under-appreciated side of cinema! Each week, Mark picks a film his guests haven't seen, then they watch and discuss it! Will they like it, love it or hate it? Listen and find out!
Theme by Rossano Galante.
Artwork by JT Seaton.
WARNING: SPOILERS!
©2024 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text Move over, Alucard! Get lost, Count Yorga! Beat it, Karnstein! Make way for cinema's first black vampire, Dracula's soul brother...Blacula! Join film teacher Kent Pettit as we discuss horror blaxploitation, the Hues Corporation and can a movie like this be made today? Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS-ula! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Clashes between horror movie monsters are a tried-and-true staple of the genre! Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man, King Kong Vs. Godzilla and Billy the Kid Vs. Dracula are but a few entries! But in the early 2000s, modern horror took a turn! Join filmmaker, photographer and film school teacher Bart Mastronardi and me as we pick up the pieces after FREDDY VS. JASON! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: FREDDY VS. JASON VS. SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Celebrate Celluloid Cemetery's 100th episode as filmmaker Vito Trabucco joins me to talk about the infamous 1989 horror film, CLOWNHOUSE! Can you separate the art from the artist? WARNING: this episode deals with adult themes. Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Clowny SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text Here at Celluloid Cemetery, we love comedy! So actor/voice actor Aaron Veach returns to talk about watching the sketch comedy film KENTUCKY FRIED MOVIE for the first time! I thought he'd like it, but being a Gemini, I never know what to expect! (zzzip! Arrow!) Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Kentucky Fried SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Today, Celluloid Cemetery welcomes the return of the Party Boys Nic Arnzen, Vince Gatton and Kellum Lewis as we discuss Wangs, Porno and Flesh! Yes, it's the elevated used-to-be-porn comedy, the 1974 film, FLESH GORDON! Bring your power pasties and watch out for the Penisauruses! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS, ya horny joiks! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text He'll save every one of us! Join actor-director-producer Nic Arnzen, actor-playwright Vince Gatton and actor-therapist Kellum Lewis as we get our Mings on to talk about the 1980 campfest, FLASH GORDON! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: FLASH! SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text Celluloid Cemetery packs our gear and mounts our horse as we head north into British Columbia hunting for the elusive Bigfoot. We just want to track it, tag it and release it...but if we feel threatened, we'll kill the mofo! Bigfoot enthusiast and former film teacher Rob Carl joins me to chat about the pseudo-documentary SASQUATCH: THE LEGEND OF BIGFOOT! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Sasquatchy SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Everyone needs a little adventure, a little danger and a whole lot of singing and dancing in their lives, even here at Celluloid Cemetery! Join dancer Anthony Chacon and me as we talk about dancing techniques, behind the scenes animosities, director Gene Kelly and Louis Armstrong! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: HELLO, SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text He's stronger than a team of horses! Smarter than Einstein! Oilier than the inside of a Crisco bottle! Today on Celluloid Cemetery, actor/singer/dancer/wrestling fan Hunter Evans joins me to talk about the 1983 film, HERCULES, starring the incredible Lou Ferrigno! Join us as we talk about allegories to Superman and Jesus, bad visual effects, Syblil Danning's cleavage and how to pack on muscle mass! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Super Strong SPOILERS! ©20...
Send us a text Hurr-ray! Hurr-ray! Hurr-ray! Step right up to the deadliest show in town, where the popcorn and the cotton candy eat YOU! Join actress, producer and singer Emily Durchholz, actor Daniel Moser and me as we face our fear of clowns talking about the 1988 horror-comedy, KILLER KLOWNS FROM OUTER SPACE on Rondo-nominated Celluloid Cemetery! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Killer SPOILERS from Outer Space!! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Celluloid Cemetery travels back to 1946 to watch the true crime exploits of the Phantom Killer and the Texas lawmen who try to catch him! Texas native actor/director Benjamin Lutz joins me to discuss this atmospheric slasher film directed by Charles B. Pierce! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: The Town That Dreaded SPOILERS!! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Rev your engines and shift those gears! Celluloid Cemetery spins its wheels and the race is on! Join me and filmmaker Vito Trabucco as we discuss the Hal Needham-helmed sequel, THE CANNONBALL RUN II. Listen in as we chat about Dom Deluise, the Razzies, celebrities who basically play themselves and Mr. Frank Sinatra! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Cannonball SPOILERS!! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Attention, Shoppers! There's a blue light special on frozen yogurt, purple dresses and cobras! Celluloid Cemetery hits the mall with project marketing director, writer and actor Patrick Falvey as we chat about 80's horror movie tropes, big hair and eyeball toppings in this teen adaption of "The Phantom of the Opera", PHANTOM OF THE MALL" ERIC'S REVENGE! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: PHANTOM OF THE SPOILERS!! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Count Yorga Meets Billy Jack is the best way to describe this movie! Join Bring Me the Axe podcaster David White as we watch a cinematic collision of Robert Quarry, vampires, hippies, bikers, surfers, cultists, caftans and wind chimes in DEATHMASTER! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERMASTER! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text Welcome to Garth Manor, where a family of five freaks were slaughtered one dark night. Now, four college pledges must spend the night in the deserted mansion on Hell Night, where the fraternity president has a bunch of pranks rigged up to scare them silly. But what none of them know is that Garth Manor isn't as deserted as they think! Join me on Celluloid Cemetery with my special guest ex-airman/budding horror novelist Bert Vojtkofsky as we manage the hedge maze looking for a reas...
Send us a text Got wedding jitters? Prepare to have them multiplied by 10 in this little-known slasher film, HE KNOWS YOU'RE ALONE! Celluloid Cemetery officiates the ceremonies with Best Man, horror fan Rob Carl, and me as Ringbearer, as we chat about big men, ghost trains, Psych 101 and Tom Hanks! Thanks to Sirius XM and Andy for the Tom Hanks clip. Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: He Knows There Are SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text I'll see you down by the fishin' hole...unless the worms get to you first! Join actor/fly fisherman Brian Sheppard and me as we explore what can go wrong when power lines go down in a rainstorm! We also talk about Tennessee Williams' accents, uncircumcised worms and dangerous stunts from my film NINJA ZOMBIE! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Squirmy SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text What do you get when you mix a flying superstrong girl, Brenda Vaccaro, a missing power source, black magic and Faye Dunaway? You get filmmakers Alan Rowe Kelly and Bart Mastronardi joining me on Celluloid Cemetery to talk about the 1984 action flick SUPERGIRL! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SUPER SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Grab your skis and hit the slopes! Then grab a mug of hot cocoa and join Bigfoot enthusiast Rob Carl and me as Celluloid Cemetery heads for the Winter Carnival to talk about the 1977 TV-movie SNOWBEAST! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Winter Carnival SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions
Send us a text What's a cozy camping trip into the woods without weird families, grumpy forest rangers, skinny-dipping in waterfalls, droopy underwear and vicious machete-wielding maniacs? Join director/cinematographer Bart Mastronardi and me on Celluloid Cemetery as we talk about director Jeff Lieberman's 1981 horror thriller JUST BEFORE DAWN! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS! SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Before LOVE AT FIRST BITE, before BLACULA, there was another racially-themed vampire comedy, OLD DRACULA! Filmmaker Vito Trabucco joins me to talk about David Niven in blackface, Theresa Graves in whiteface, British humor and can themes about racism can be funny without being offensive? Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Vampiric SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Celluloid Cemetery goes carpet-bagging with rocks, jewels, secret documents, clothes and hilarious results as actor/director Benjamin Lutz joins me to talk about one of the greatest screwball rom-coms of all time, Peter Bogdanovich's WHAT'S UP, DOC? starring Barbara Streisand, Ryan O'Neal and the amazing Madeline Kahn! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Igneous SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Dust off the little grey cells as my special guest director/writer/podcaster Michael Varrati (THERE'S A ZOMBIE OUTSIDE!) joins me to discuss the campy bitchy goodness of Agatha Christie's EVIL UNDER THE SUN and why Maggie Smith, Diana Rigg and Sylvia Miles commit another crime by stealing the movie! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Little Grey SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text What do you get when you mix Dean Jones, Connie Stevens, romantic comedy, a melodious rabbit, a house full of tricks and a guillotine?? It's Disney meets William Castle in the wonderfully spooky TWO ON A GUILLOTINE! Join me and my special guest, horror podcaster and film historian Daniel Epler as we talk all things Old Dark House, what scared us as kids and cold roast beef sandwiches! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: Cold Roast Beef SPOILERS! ©2025 Thrillsv...
Send us a text Here's the story of a lovely lady, her three very lovely girls, a fellow with three boys of his own and a Christmas that they'll never forget! Celebrate the holiday here on Celluloid Cemetery as me and my very special guest Santa Claus(!) discuss why there's a different actress playing Cindy, a randy Carol Brady and just where the hell is that damn bathroom?? Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. WARNING: SPOILERS! ©2024 Thrillsville Productions...
Send us a text Hey, Vern, it's Christmas! And when Santa comes to Orlando, Florida to pass on the mantle to a retired kiddie show host and set a street youth on the right path, that can only mean one thing! It's Ernest P. Worrell to the rescue! Entertainment Marketing Director and writer Patrick Falvey joins me to talk about bloody reindeer, horny teenage actresses, shtick-laden baggage handlers and the amazing Jim Varney! KnowwhutImean? WARNING: Hey Vern, it's SPOILERS! Theme by Rossano Galante...
Send us a text How do you breathe life into a story that's been realized dozens of times? Why, add the Muppets, of course! Join actress/singer/producer Emily Durchholz, actor Daniel Moser and myself as we discuss Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and Ebenezer Scrooge in the holiday musical classic, THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL! WARNING: We're Marley and SPOILERS! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. ©2024 Thrillsville Production...
Send us a text "Hey, Agnes, it's me, Billy! They're talking about us today on Celluloid Cemetery... Voice actor/actor Aaron Veach talks with the host about those naughty things we did...and why someone thinks a movie about them is a good idea. We can make prank calls while we listen to them talk about the 1974 version of BLACK CHRISTMAS!" WARNING: HO! HO! HO! SPOILERS! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. ©2024 Thrillsville Production...
Send us a text Tie your laces, spin your wheels and get ready to roll to disco madness! Today, Celluloid Cemetery gets its wheels wet with marketing producer/writer/film enthusiast Patrick Falvey as we do a few laps chatting about the 2012 roller disco spoof, ROLLER TOWN! WARNING: DISCO SPOILERS! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. ©2024 Thrillsville Production...
Send us a text Gamera is the friend of children...and Celluloid Cemetery! Join Godzilla enthusiast Andrew Ward as he crosses the line from the Big G to the little g to chat with me about giant flying flame-spouting turtles and knife-headed chuckling lizard in the kiddie kanji film GAMERA VS. GUIRON! WARNING: GAMERA VS. SPOILERS! Theme by Rossano Galante. Artwork by JT Seaton. ©2024 Thrillsville Production...
